Official Thread: Walmsley, Herron, Tons of others to chase 100km WR in Project Carbon X 2

KeepYourFocus wrote:

I'm torn between:

"Wow. Incredible run."

and

"WHY WHY WHY did you spend all this time fiddling with your watch. Maybe because he was delirious, but why didn't the people in the car say so. Give the man splits. Know how far he is from the finish."

I feel for him. It was a frustrating watch.

The watch didn't cost him 11 seconds. He's trying to figure out how far they have. What I don't get is why they don't have someone standing 1 mile out or 800 out telling him what he needs.

Agree, there should have been display of time on car synced to the real time.

Second place men's finisher, was bonked at the end, didn't know where to stop.

I would agree with you guys...

It was a truly epic run.

But my first impression was... the coach in the car messed up. He was telling him to keep pace, that he was fine on pace.

As viewers we were surprised when he fell from one minute ahead of pace to suddenly behind pace.

Very cool compelling event.

I'll just pull a Rojo for a second here with some quick takes:

QT1: Does the finish of this race have viral potential now? More or less so than if he had broken the record?

QT2: I was surprised at how difficult it was for the announcers to find words for him not getting it. He didn't get it. That's good drama!

QT3: Where the heck were the live splits?

QT4: Are figurative heads going to roll at Hoka/timing company/race directors over timing issues?

QT5: And lastly, a seconded to the poster asking what he would have run in a super-foam shoe. Strange how that question is now always there.

They need to tell us how far of a lead the French girl has on the Brit.

Wrong. He told him with 5k that he needed to hold his pace, but Jim dropped about 30s the last 5k. Just couldn’t hang on fast enough

It definitely did not, I agree - A couple at most.

But watching him fiddle with his watch so much when it seemed so close I couldn't help but yell at the TV.

It does feel that with all the organisation around it, they could have had someone (or even a floor marker?) at 2k - 1 mile - 1k - 800, since that's what he seemed to be asking about?

Gutted for him, but mighty impressive!

I think Hola is going home devastated. Not a very impressive commercial for their shoe technology and updates. In vaporflys he would have gotten it done. Great run but doesn't really add much to Hoka's prestige or reputation.

Pacing is everything.

HUGE RUN! Made Kipchoge's sub 2 circus look like the contrived piece of sh*t it was. HOKA should launch a blood-stained design of that singlet. That WC break around 30km is to blame. I hope Jim doesn't go home devastated. I wouldn't want to run another 100km in three weeks if I was him <3

So what happened?

I am just back from my own run and just saw Brown finishing.

Incredible run.

In 10 years will the 100k be as popular as marathons at the elite level? That was certainly more interesting than watching another 2:05/2:06 marathon, and in general there's so much unknown potential for the event.

runner92384 wrote:

Incredible run.

In 10 years will the 100k be as popular as marathons at the elite level? That was certainly more interesting than watching another 2:05/2:06 marathon, and in general there's so much unknown potential for the event.

plz discuss on the next podcast episode

I accept the result. This was what he had today. Solid. Faster than many would have predicted. Amazing drama to miss it. Feels a bit like Kipchoge's first attempt at sub-2.

I don't know if I've ever seen the drug test waiting area as part of race coverage.

runner92384 wrote:

Incredible run.

In 10 years will the 100k be as popular as marathons at the elite level? That was certainly more interesting than watching another 2:05/2:06 marathon, and in general there's so much unknown potential for the event.

Uhhhhh no. Give me a 2:05 any day.

Missed this, what happed at 30km? How much time?

When will the interview Jim?